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post #4971 of 25987
8/22/12 at 8:11pm

Did anyone notice Amy Beth's birthday is today!??! I just realized it!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY BETH (ZOOWEEMAMA)!!!

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post #4972 of 25987
8/22/12 at 8:13pm
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Did anyone notice Amy Beth's birthday is today!??! I just realized it!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY BETH (ZOOWEEMAMA)!!!

ouch sorry Amy Beth

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California Certified Nursery Pro

 

Breeding Crele Penedesenca's ,Black Penedesenca  and White Empordanesa's

plus the

Blue Crew ( U of a Blues , Blue Ameraucana , Easter Eggers , Olive eggers and now Silver Ameraucana )

 

for olive egger purposes

 

"Penedesenca Breeders and Fan Club " on Facebook

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post #4973 of 25987
8/22/12 at 8:15pm
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Did anyone notice Amy Beth's birthday is today!??! I just realized it!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY BETH (ZOOWEEMAMA)!!!


Amy, I did notice, but forgot to wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  A day to take pictures and not have to cook dinner sounds perfect.  Best wishes to you and yours!

 

Lynda
 

A mind is like a door.  Keep it open and something might get in.

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A mind is like a door.  Keep it open and something might get in.

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post #4974 of 25987
8/22/12 at 8:38pm

:happybday:Amy Beth!

 

Ron
 

Ron

 

Is this a Hobby or a way of Life? Chickens: Australorp, Barred & Partridge Rock, Hatchery & Heritage RIR, Golden Comet, Marans, Easter Egger,  Silver Gray Dorking, Basque Hen, Partridge Penedesenca, Olive Egger and UofA Blues

Hatching 101 including Shipped Eggs

 

The Great Egg Shipping Experiment

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Ron

 

Is this a Hobby or a way of Life? Chickens: Australorp, Barred & Partridge Rock, Hatchery & Heritage RIR, Golden Comet, Marans, Easter Egger,  Silver Gray Dorking, Basque Hen, Partridge Penedesenca, Olive Egger and UofA Blues

Hatching 101 including Shipped Eggs

 

The Great Egg Shipping Experiment

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post #4975 of 25987
8/22/12 at 8:42pm

Happy bday Amy beth! were you anywhere near that palo cedro fire?

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post #4976 of 25987
8/22/12 at 9:01pm
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The wait is killing me. Between buying chicks, building materials, food, medications, increased water bill...we have spent over $1000 on all this since the start. That is one very pricey egg. LOL And people only charge $3 for a dozen? rofl!

I agree. this is a very expensive endeavor! Every time Johnny has a moment where he realizes how much we spend I have to distract him! haha

It's only the first one that's expensive, after that they are free! wink.png

 

Happy Birthday AmyBeth.

 

Deb

The difference between breakfast and chicks, is the temperature you use to "cook" the eggs!

 

What breeds do I have?  More than any sane person would own.

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The difference between breakfast and chicks, is the temperature you use to "cook" the eggs!

 

What breeds do I have?  More than any sane person would own.

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post #4977 of 25987
8/22/12 at 9:15pm
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Did anyone notice Amy Beth's birthday is today!??! I just realized it!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY BETH (ZOOWEEMAMA)!!!

How did you know that? Does it pop up somewhere? haha Thanks!

 

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ouch sorry Amy Beth

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Thank ya

 

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Amy, I did notice, but forgot to wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  A day to take pictures and not have to cook dinner sounds perfect.  Best wishes to you and yours!

 

Lynda
 

Gracias

 

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:happybday:Amy Beth!

 

Ron
 

donkey shane. hehe kidding Danke schoen ;)

 

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Happy bday Amy beth! were you anywhere near that palo cedro fire?

Thanks Jeff! No not really but dang the smoke! Orange skies!

 

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It's only the first one that's expensive, after that they are free! wink.png

 

Happy Birthday AmyBeth.

 

Deb

Thank you, ma'am! haha I am totally looking forward to letting my Orpies sit and hatch some chicks this Spring. Awww!

 

I was so surprised. When I came out to the coop area with the feed in hand for supper it was like they KNEW! They all ran through the orchard to me. How funny is that? I walked into the coop and all but 1 followed me in. 25 in, 1 had to coaxed- not bad odds for the first day/night! It was SO fun watching them peck and scratch the ground! The geese amazingly enough are leaving them alone so far. I have to watch my drakes around them- drakes will mount anything and if a drake mounts a hen it can kill her. I was fascinated to learn ducks have penises and roosters don't. No wonder hens end up dead or damaged after a drake mates her. Poor things! So far the ducks are too preoccupied with the the pond so that's good. Free ranging the chickens is more important to me than keeping these drakes- so if one had to go...it would be my drakes so my ladies could range freely. :)

Amy Beth. Zoo Mom to Cats, Dog, Lizards, Ducks, Chickens and Geese. Ducks: Pekins, FW runners, WH, Buffs, Black Runner, Golden 300s and Silver Appleyards. | Chickens: Buff Orps,  French Black Copper Marans, Bantam Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, TJs Leghorns, Naked Necks and EEs. | Geese: Brown African | 

 

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Amy Beth. Zoo Mom to Cats, Dog, Lizards, Ducks, Chickens and Geese. Ducks: Pekins, FW runners, WH, Buffs, Black Runner, Golden 300s and Silver Appleyards. | Chickens: Buff Orps,  French Black Copper Marans, Bantam Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, TJs Leghorns, Naked Necks and EEs. | Geese: Brown African | 

 

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post #4978 of 25987
8/22/12 at 9:50pm
Happy Birthday to ya Amy Beth!!! Haaaappyyyyy biiiiiirthdaaaayyyyy!!

Lol I thought maybe it was your birthday when you said something about your camera. I thought it was from your last birthday.

I'm a little slow sometimes lol.

I hope you enjoyed your day! big_smile.png
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Gold Laced Brahma, Silver Laced Brahma, Buff Laced Brahma, Palomino Brahma, LF Buff Brahma Blue Orpington, Lavender Orpington, Euskal Oiloa Basque, Blue Americuana

Now Breeding Blue Double Laced Barnevelders and soon Partridge Orpingtons and Bielefelders !
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post #4979 of 25987
8/22/12 at 9:51pm
Hey Ron what all do you need to rehome?
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Gold Laced Brahma, Silver Laced Brahma, Buff Laced Brahma, Palomino Brahma, LF Buff Brahma Blue Orpington, Lavender Orpington, Euskal Oiloa Basque, Blue Americuana

Now Breeding Blue Double Laced Barnevelders and soon Partridge Orpingtons and Bielefelders !
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post #4980 of 25987
8/22/12 at 10:29pm

From earlier today:

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Well, it was not all that great for the chickens in the old days. They compensated for the lower egg production by keeping more chickens. What I remember is giving them oats and layer feed in the morning and dinner scraps at night. We did this all year round. Others cut off the food a bit during molt which is the wrong thing to do. They need more protein during the molt, not less. It helps them to recover. We did not give them free access to food, just tossed several hand fulls on the ground for them. They were forced to forage on their own.

 

I also read that lots of chickens did not make it through the winter because of the way they were fed and they did not care back them. Chickens were not too valuable to most people. There have always been show chickens though and they were better cared for. Ours did not die in the winters though; just in the summer and when the dog got one.

 

Ron

 

it's interesting, that for most of the chicken's history with people, they were kept primarily for eggs, not meat (up until WWII or so, chicken meat was the sunday/occasional delicacy, not an everyday staple), and WERE valuable to most people -- they just didn't necessarily see all the biological relationships between food and egg-laying and molting patterns.  i'm not sure one can compare modern understanding of nutrition and disease and etc. to past times & conclude that people cared or valued less?  

 

because chickens, like pigs and most other livestock, have always been in the role of taking resources people otherwise wouldn't/couldn't really use & turning those into something useful -- with cattle/sheep/goats, it's eating grass that our digestive systems can't process and transforming it into something we can use (meat, wool, milk, etc), and with pigs and chickens, it was mostly eating our refuse & leftovers, as well as free-ranging on their own, & transforming those into eggs and bacon.  so handy!  and most definitely valued.

 

pardon me; it's the first week of classes, i'm teaching environmental history (among other things), and hence you get a lecture.  i'll do my best to restrain the impulse!  and most backyard chickens are certainly better looked-after today than they ever were in the past -- i just don't want us to think that it's because we care MORE, we just have better biological/medical understanding of their needs, and perhaps care about slightly different priorities.  

 

and happy birthday amy beth!!

 

best,

laura

-- laura, plus frances & bella (silver penciled rocks), dixie & ethel (cuckoo marans), daisy (australorp), jane (light sussex), eleanor & maggie (EO basque), lucy (cream legbar), amelia one and two (CL x pene crosses), elsa and anna (silver campines) AND max the swedish flower hen rooster! plus a bunch of growing chicks, who have yet to be named...

and cats sophie, henry, and pearl, of course!

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-- laura, plus frances & bella (silver penciled rocks), dixie & ethel (cuckoo marans), daisy (australorp), jane (light sussex), eleanor & maggie (EO basque), lucy (cream legbar), amelia one and two (CL x pene crosses), elsa and anna (silver campines) AND max the swedish flower hen rooster! plus a bunch of growing chicks, who have yet to be named...

and cats sophie, henry, and pearl, of course!

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